Health, Fertility and Supplements

It's always sad to get news of a miscarriage or fertility issues among friends and relatives. The woman is always the one that have to go through so much and get the most blame when issues like this happens. I always believe that it takes two to make a healthy baby. Both men and woman have to be responsible for this and should work together to find out the reason and also to find a solution to it.

According to the Malaysia Total Fertility Rates (2011 est), the fertility rates are decreasing for the last 10 years. Total fertility rate (2011 est) is standing at 2.67% as compared to 3.13% for year 2003.

What might be the issues behind this?

A study published in the April 2004 issue of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, showed a correlation between fertility supplements and pregnancy rates. The double blind study (in which neither the researchers nor the subjects knew who was taking placebo and who was taking the fertility supplements) conducted at Stanford University, involved thirty women between the ages of twenty-four to forty-six, who had not been able to conceive. After five months, five of the fifteen women taking fertility supplements conceived, while there were no pregnancies in the placebo group.

In fact, research and clinical practice come down on the side of fertility supplementation for both aspiring parents. Regardless of which one of you has been diagnosed with an imbalance, increasing both partners' level of health has been linked with higher pregnancy rates. This is of course common sense-the healthier the genetic material, the healthier the child. To cite just one of the fertility related studies that validates this theory: A 1962 study published in the International Journal of Fertility found that miscarriage was more common with low sperm counts.

We need to have a healthy body and a healthy lifestyle to be fertile. Unfortunately due to our hectic lives, it is almost impossible to get all the nutrients we need from food alone. Besides, when i learn about the nutrient depletion from our food as compared to 10 years back, it freaks me out!

I would like to share two website i found from my online research, Nourishing Life and Fertile Heart that talks about health, fertility and supplements and hope that my friends, relatives and readers will benefit from it and be encourage to start a healthy life.